Information and insight from the A&M Webmasters

As a followup to yesterday’s note, I contacted the library to see whether we are still licensed for the Safari Online Collection. It turns out that we are, but that the method of getting at it has changed:

We still have access to Safari tech books– it includes O’Reilly, Pearson imprints, and quite a few other publishers.

If you are OFF campus, you will be prompted to login with your netID and password (current students, faculty & staff). If you are ON campus, this step is skipped.

Yo will get a results screen. Look for the Safari Tech Books Online entry and click on its title. You should now be in Safari.

HOWEVER, the library has very few simultaneous users, so if you get a message saying that the lisences have been exceeded, wait a few minutes and try again.

We have access to the currently published books online– books published in the current year, plus the previous 2 years. This database is very expensive, which is why we have limited seats (simultaneous users) and subscribe to the current years only.